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  • Supreme Court to take up UT admission case [may strike down racial and ethnic considerations)

    10/08/2012 8:01:59 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 35 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | October 8, 2012 | Mike Tolsen
    In the fall of 2008, the University of Texas enrolled 10,335 minority students, not including Asian-Americans. As far as Abigail Fisher was concerned, that was one too many. Fisher had made good grades in high school - a 3.59 average on a 4.0 scale - posted a score of 1180 on the SAT test and finished as number 82 in a graduating class of 674 at Stephen F. Austin High School in Sugar Land. She figured that was good enough. Then came those dreadful words: "We regret to inform you ..." Fisher was heartbroken. Her dad went to Texas, and...